Healthy Banana bread

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This easy banana bread recipe is the BEST way to use ripe bananas! It's moist, delicious, and packed with banana flavor. You're going to love it!

In the mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar.

Mix in mashed bananas and eggs.

Whisk together dry ingredients: flour, salt, and baking soda and add to batter.

Stir in vanilla, walnuts, and raisins, transfer to prepared loaf pan and bake.

Substitutions for a Healthy Banana Bread:

My sister Anna made this into a honey banana bread; replacing sugar with honey.

Use organic whole wheat flour instead of all-purpose flour.

Replace 1 Tbsp of flour with 1 Tbsp ground flaxseed.

Reduce sugar to 1/2 cup when using very ripe bananas; they add plenty of sweetness

Ingredients

 

Servings: 10 people

3 very ripe bananas, (medium/large)

½ cup unsalted butter, (8 Tbsp) at room temperature

3/4 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

½ tsp vanilla extract

1 cup walnuts

½ cup raisins Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a bread loaf pan (9.25 long x 5.25 wide x 2.75 deep). Lightly roast walnuts on a skillet, continuously stirring so they won’t burn. Coarsely chop and cool to room temperature. 

In a mixing bowl, cream together 8 Tbsp softened butter and 3/4 cup sugar (or honey if using honey).

Mash bananas with a fork until the consistency of chunky applesauce 

And add them to the batter along with 2 eggs, mixing until blended. 

In a separate bowl, whisk together: 1 1/2 cups of flour, 1 tsp of baking soda and 1/2 tsp of salt then add to batter.

Add 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract and mix in chopped walnuts and raisins. 

Pour into prepared loaf pan. Bake at 350˚F for 55-60 min or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let banana bread rest for 10 min before transferring to a wire rack to cool.